Object Details
- Fawcett Publications, Inc.
- Description
- America’s Greatest Comics issue No. 1 was published by Fawcett Publications, Inc. in the fall of 1941 and sold for 15 cents. The cover features the superhero characters Spy Smasher, Bullet Man, Captain Marvel, Minute-Man, and Mr. Scarlet.
- This issue features the stories of: Captain Marvel defeating the Ghost of the Deep; Bulletman and Bulletgirl taking down the thieving Invisible Man; the Minute-Man destroying the sinister Mr. Skeleton; Spy Smasher routing America Smasher; and Mr. Scarlet battling the Death Battalion.
- Issues of America’s Greatest Comics included several stories, each featuring a different hero, within its 100 page full color book. The superheroes featured in these comics were the most popular characters of Fawcett Publications who also appeared in other comics.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Olivia V. Crisson and Phillip M.S. Crisson in honor of Peter Bozzer
- 1941
- ID Number
- 2013.0086.004
- catalog number
- 2013.0086.004
- accession number
- 2013.0086
- Object Name
- comic book
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 7 1/4 in x 10 in; 18.415 cm x 25.4 cm
- place made
- United States: Connecticut, Greenwich
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Entertainment
- Comic Books
- Popular Entertainment
- National Museum of American History
- subject
- Comics
- Record ID
- nmah_1446174
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-d591-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
